Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carney, 47, resting in a Hartford (Conn.) sanitarium after what his manager called "nervous tension, depression and a lot of things I won't go into" forced him to abandon his role in Broadway's The Odd Couple; TV Actress (Peyton Place) Dorothy Malone, 35, mending in Hollywood's Cedars of Lebanon Hospital after a dangerous seven-hour operation to remove massive blood clots from her lungs...
...decided she would rather act, began her movie career as a waitress named Pussycat who douses Dean Martin with a drink in something called The Silencers. With that little ceremony finished, Carol smiled as gracefully as the King used to and went off to be crowned Princess October of Hollywood-a distinction cooked up by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to honor a girl every month for "character and personality...
Divorced. By Betty Grable, 48, Hollywood's wartime pinup queen (Million Dollar Legs), now often gamboling on the Las Vegas stage (Guys and Dolls): Harry Hagg James, 49, once perhaps the world's greatest trumpet virtuoso, still tooting as a successful bandleader; on uncontested grounds of extreme cruelty; after 22 years of marriage, two children; in Las Vegas...
Died. Zachary Scott, 51, character actor, a mustachioed Texan who ambled around Hollywood wearing a pirate-style gold earring, was most often cast as the oil-slick villain of Hollywood cliffhangers (Ruthless, Whiplash), but proved equally proficient in the demanding Broadway role of the relentless defense attorney in Faulkner's 1959 Requiem for a Nun; of cancer; in Austin, Texas...
...forsake his beloved marble and paint the frescoes for the vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. "It was built by my uncle, Pope Sixtus. That is why it is called the Sistine," says Harrison, surveying a replica meticulously copied by movie artists, and at the same time snappily launching Hollywood's own capsule history of Renaissance art. Unfortunately, the dramatic clash of two iron-willed giants at odds over a ceiling seldom gets off the floor. Heston sweats, struggles up the scaffolding, and smears himself with color in a performance that merely adds another great stone profile...